Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other emotions; how Americans feel about America is clearly linked to how they feel about themselves functioning in America. Thus in the 19th century every imaginable interest group claimed superior nativity. Businessmen denounced unionists as alien anarchists; each generation of naturalized immigrants scorned each later wave of "foreigners," notably Roman Catholics, victims of outrageous persecution by the nativist Know-Nothings of the 1850s. Just before the Civil War, slavery apologists attributed to themselves the one true Americanism; some Southerners wanted to claim the Stars and Stripes as their own flag...
...Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen sees patriotism as "essentially linked with love of parents, neighbor and of God." Since these relationships, he feels, have deteriorated, so has patriotism. Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who defines patriotism as "loyalty to law and order and support of the positive purposes of the Government that makes possible one's freedom," finds no evidence of decline. He sees only change, toward increased exercise of individual conscience and greater "moral sensitivity...
...differences of political viewpoints within the church. Ramsey finds a certain irony in the fact that the secularist syndrome is prevalent among Protestants, who are now seeking "to assume decisions that belong in the realm of the state." Ramsey argues that "not even the 'magisterium' of the Roman Catholic Church has in recent centuries, if ever, gone so far in telling statesmen what is required of them...
...responsible for Jesus' death? Although the Gospels tend to blame the Jews of Jerusalem, Christian Biblical scholars generally agree that the Evangelists underplayed Roman responsibility. Now, Israel Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn, an expert in the history of Jewish legal traditions, argues that not only did the Jews have no part in the trial of Christ, but also that the Sanhedrin, Judaism's high court, actually tried to save him from death...
...Israel Law Review. Analyzing the Gospel accounts of the Passion in the light of known facts about legal customs and traditions of Jesus' time, Cohn insists that Jesus was tried and condemned for the political crime of insurrection-a charge that could be handled only by the Roman Procurator and not by a Jewish court. The Justice supports this suggestion by reference to the Gospel texts: when Jesus was asked by Pilate if he was King of the Jews, he answered "You have said so"-in effect, says Cohn, a nolo contendere admission of guilt...